Jordan is from the Hebrew Yardēn — to descend, to flow down — referring to the Jordan River, the most-important river in biblical geography. The country Jordan — Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East; population 11 million; capital Amman; Queen Rania of Jordan (born 1970) is one of the world's most-photographed and most-influential queens. Jordan Hinson — American actress.
Jordan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jordan reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.